I'm still trying to figure out how they think this is a good decision. Speaking for myself as an abuse survivor, there's a reason people are blocked. They should NOT have access to us at all.

i suspect it's just about whose experience the platform is being optimized for while it may be a transparently awful idea for regular people, it's an absolute *boon* for creeps and dickheads

Because Elon is Big Mad ™️that so many people are blocking him over his many terrible opinions He once got upset that Joe Biden was getting more likes on his tweet that he (Elon) was, despite having 5x more followers. so he tweaked twitter's algorithm so boosts his tweets above everyone else's.